Definition of Budget deficit

1. Noun. An excess of expenditures over revenues.

Generic synonyms: Deficit
Specialized synonyms: Federal Deficit

Lexicographical Neighbors of Budget Deficit

budger
budgeree
budgereegah
budgerigar
budgerigars
budgero
budgeros
budgerow
budgerows
budgers
budgerygah
budges
budget
budget constraint
budget cut
budget deficit (current term)
budget for
budget items
budgetarily
budgetary
budgeted
budgeteer
budgeteers
budgeter
budgeters
budgeting
budgetless
budgets
budgie
budgie smuggler

Literary usage of Budget deficit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Economic and Budget Outlook: Fiscal Years, 1999-2008 edited by Sherry Snyder (1998)
"Those adjustments make changes in the standardized-employment deficit a better measure of fiscal policy than changes in the unadjusted budget deficit. ..."

2. Blunting the Sword: Budget Policy and the Future of Defense by Dennis S. Ippolito (1995)
"The Deficit Dynamic The budget deficit, which is the difference between the ... The unified budget deficit comprises all federal revenues and spending, ..."

3. Oecd Economic Surveys by OECD. (2003)
"According to OECD estimates on a cyclically- adjusted basis, the budget deficit is set to fall by 0.8 percentage point of GDP, implying a restrictive fiscal ..."

4. Oecd Economic Surveys: Mexico (2005)
"But the underlying fiscal position presents two main weaknesses:first, non-recurrent revenues have served to reduce the budget deficit (both narrow and ..."

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